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No fewer than five people were said to have lost their lives to a disease suspected to be viral hepatitis, which broke out in Marhai community in the Wamba Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Viral hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver. According to doctors, the disease...

New WHO data from 28 countries – representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden – indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World Hepatitis Day, the data reveal that nearly all 28 countries have...

Hepatitis B in women obviously carries more weight than in any other group. Given their central role in the family and society at large, women with hepatitis B have contacts not only with their partners but also their kids and unborn children. The impact on unborn children is the...

Mrs A just hired a nanny; finally she got someone to help take care of her 4 month old baby. She works in a new generation bank and doesn’t get home till 8pm. The nanny commenced work and she was all she could ask for. Mrs A’s colleague advised her to run some tests for the...

Last Friday, the Ministry of Health concluded a campaign on prevention, access to testing, treatment and care of Hepatitis that was conducted in line with World Hepatitis Day (WHD) celebration. During the campaign, 250,000 people were expected to be screened for Hepatitis B and C...

The Federal Government on Saturday assured Nigerians of its commitment to take proactive steps towards controlling the spread of Hepatitis in the country. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, stated this during the 24th Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference of...

Wisdom Ihejieto, the Deputy Secretary of the Guild of Medical Directors, FCT chapter, said about 20 million Nigerians were infected with hepatitis in Nigeria. Ihejieto disclosed this when the National President of the Guild, Tony Philips, paid a courtesy visit to the Managing...

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has recorded 70 cases of people suffering from hepatitis E, a liver disease that spreads through water contaminated with faeces. Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak, which has killed 11...

Hepatitis B in women obviously carries more weight than in any other group. Given their central role in the family and society at large, women with hepatitis B have contacts not only with their partners but also their kids and unborn children. The impact on unborn children is the...

Mrs A just hired a nanny; finally she got someone to help take care of her 4 month old baby. She works in a new generation bank and doesn’t get home till 8pm. The nanny commenced work and she was all she could ask for. Mrs A’s colleague advised her to run some tests for the...

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